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This study aims to investigate the stylistic features of maritime fiction written by Louis Becke, one of the best maritime fiction writers in Australia, in terms of keywords extracted from a study corpus compiling his five maritime novels against a reference corpus composed of general literary novels selected from BNC Baby. Additionally, we compare the list of keywords extracted from the study corpus with that of Joseph Conrad’s maritime fiction corpus to ascertain the distinctive stylistic features of Louis Becke’s writings. The results show that Becke’s maritime fiction has comparatively smaller standardized type/token ratio, shorter mean word length, a broader variety of the maritime vocabulary, and more unique function words than that written by Joseph Conrad, a Polish-British author. Interestingly, some function words extracted as keywords represent Becke’s stylistic characteristics: a conjunction coordinator (and), the first person pronouns (I, we, and me), and modal auxiliaries (will and shall). As expected, it was also observed that there are numerous maritime-related content words such as captain, boat(s), mate, ship, brig, crew, deck, board, reef, ashore, etc. in the top 50 keywords.

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Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. Data and Methodology
  2.1. Study Corpus
  2.2. Reference Corpora
  2.3. Instruments and Methods
  2.4. Data Processing Procedure
 3. Results and Discussion
  3.1. STTR and Word Length
  3.2. Keyword Lists
  3.3. Three Perspectives for the Stylistic Characteristics
 4. Conclusion
 References

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루이스 베케 조셉 콘라드 해양소설 문체적인 특징 코퍼스 기반 접근 키워드 분석 Louis Becke Joseph Conrad maritime fiction stylistic characteristics corpus-based approach keyword analysis

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• Siqi Liu [ Korea Maritime and Ocean University ] First author
• Se-Eun Jhang [ Korea Maritime and Ocean University ] Corresponding author

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